Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children

by Chase, John Churchill

• ISBN13: 9781565549319
• ISBN10: 1565549317
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Inc

Summary

Few cities can boast such numerous, strange-sounding, regal, and historic street names as New Orleans.

Table of Contents

Wilderness--and a Street	3	(18)
Prelude to a City	21	(12)
``... and Call It New Orleans''	33	(14)
Tchoupitoulas-More Than a Street	47	(12)
Growing Pains	59	(18)
Creole vs. Kaintock-Round One	77	(14)
Creole vs. Kaintock-Round Two	91	(14)
Canal Street-and Contrasts	105	(16)
The Americans Had Class	121	(18)
All Aboard for Uptown	139	(16)
Downtown Was the Battleground	155	(12)
Back-of-Town Was Backward	167	(18)
Across the Main Street	185	(16)
Side Street and Sidelights	201	(26)
... and Lagniappe	227	(12)
Grade-Crossings, River-Crossings-and Double-Crossings	239